George Santayana Quotes

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Ask yourself this question every day: "How may I best serve the most people?"

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.